Remember when you were young,
you shone like the sun.
shine on you crazy diamond.
now there’s a look in your eyes,
like black holes in the sky.
shine on you crazy diamond.
you were caught on the crossfire
of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
come on you target
for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger,
you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon,
you cried for the moon.
shine on you crazy diamond.
threatened by shadows at night,
and exposed in the light.
shine on you crazy diamond.
well you wore out your welcome
with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
come on you raver,
you seer of visions,
come on you painter,
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where’s or why’s
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks
And no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.

Dogs of war and men of hate
with no cause, we don’t discriminate
discovery is to be disowned
our currency is flesh and bone
hell opened up and put on sale
gather round and haggle
for hard cash, we will lie and deceive
even our masters don’t know the webs we heave

one world, it’s a battleground
one world, and we will smash it down
one world…one world

Invisible transfers,
long distance calls
hollow laughter in marble halls
steps have been taken, a silent uproar
has unleashed the dogs of war
you can’t stop what has begun
signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
we all have a dark side, to say the least
and dealing in death
is the nature of the beast
one world, it’s a battleground
one world, and we will smash it down
one world…one world

The dogs of war don’t negotiate
the dogs of war won’t capitulate
they will take and you will give
and you must die so that they may live
you can knock at any door
but wherever you go,
you know they’ve been there before
well winners can lose
and things can get strained
but whatever you change,
you know the dogs remain

one world, it’s a battleground
one world, and we will smash it down
one world…one world.

Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings,
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

I always said he’d come to no good
In the end your honor.
If they’d let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied,
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with laughter.
Let me hammer him today?

Crazy, toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
(Crazy, toys in the attic he’s crazy)

You little shit you’re in it, now
I hope they throw away the key.
Yer should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no! You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm your honor,
Him and me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to mother baby,
Let me hold you in my arms.
M’lud I never wanted him ta
Get in any trouble.
Why’d he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy, Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there
in the wall when I came in.
(Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy)

The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible,
there’s no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving a
The full penalty of law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!

Since, my friend,
you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers.
Tear down the wall!

Hello…?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you´re feeling down.
Well i can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I´ll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but
I can´t hear what you´re saying.
When i was a child i had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now i´ve got that feeling once again
I can´t explain you would not understand
This is not how i am.
I have become comfortably numb.

O.k.
Just a little pinprick.
There´ll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it´s working, good.
That´ll keep you going
Through the show
Come on it´s time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move
But i can´t hear what you´re saying.
When i was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become
Comfortably numb.

Daddy’s flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what’d’ja leave behind for me?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

“Wrong, Do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat,
you can’t have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding
if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds,
stand still laddy!”

I don’t need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don’t think I need anything at all.
No! Don’t think I’ll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cold breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year, running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.